Death, Society and Human Experience - Robert J. Kastenbaum

Death, Society and Human Experience

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528 Seiten
2011 | 11th edition
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Providing an understanding of the relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society. 

 

This book is intended to contribute to your understanding of your relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society. Kastenbaum shows how individual and societal attitudes influence both how and when we die and how we live and deal with the knowledge of death and loss.  

 

Robert Kastenbaum is a renowned scholar who developed one of the world's first death education courses and introduced the first text for this market.

  

This landmark text draws on contributions from the social and behavioral sciences as well as the humanities, such as history, religion, philosophy, literature, and the arts, to provide thorough coverage of understanding death and the dying process.

 

Learning Goals

Upon completing this book, readers should be able to:



Understand the relationship with death, both as an individual and as a member of society
See how social forces and events affect the length of our lives, how we grieve, and how we die
Learn how dying people are perceived and treated in our society and what can be done to provide the best possible care 
Master an understanding of continuing developments and challenges to hospice (palliative care).
Understand what is becoming of faith and doubt about an afterlife

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Bob Kastenbaum’s exploits as skating messenger apparently qualified him to become editor of two community newspapers, an eccentric career trajectory that somehow led to a graduate scholarship in philosophy and a Ph.D. in psychology at the University of Southern California (1959). He was most interested in fields of psychological study that barely existed at the time: lifespan development and aging, time perspective, creativity, and death and dying. Kastenbaum became part of an emerging cadre that overcame the prevailing neglect and resistance to these issues. He worked in varied settings as clinician, researcher, activist, hospital administrator, educator, and author. The innovative programs he introduced into a geriatric hospital and his article, “The Reluctant Therapist” have been credited with preparing the way for increased attention to the needs and potentials of vulnerable elders and terminally ill people.  With Dick Kalish, he founded Omega, the first peer-reviewed journal focused on death-related issues.  Kastenbaum taught the first regularly-scheduled university course on death and dying and came up with the first textbook (Death, Society, & Human Experience, 1977). He also established the first university-based educational and research center on death and dying (Wayne State University, 1966).  His other books include The Psychology of Death  (1972, 1990, 2000); Dorian, Graying: Is Youth the Only Thing Worth Having?  (1995), and On Our Way. The Final Passage Through Life and Death (2004).  He has also served as editor of the Macmillan Encyclopedia of Death and Dying,  (2003) and two previous encyclopedias.  In the public sphere he has served as a co-founder  of The National Caucus on Black Aging, consultant to the United States Senate Special Subcommittee on Aging, and participant in developing the Veterans Administration’s geriatric research and educational centers, and the landmark National Hospice Demonstration Project.  Kastenbaum lives in Tempe, Arizona with Bunny (wife), Angel (The Incredible Leaping Dog), enhanced by Pumpkin and Snowflake  in the cat department.  Along with his continuing research interests, Kastenbaum has been writing book and verse for musicals and operas. He notes that nobody has died in the two most recently premiered operas (Closing Time; American Gothic, music by Kenneth LaFave), but cannot make any such promises about the next opera.

IN THIS SECTION:

1. BRIEF

2. COMPREHENSIVE

 

  

BRIEF TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Chapter 1: As We Think About Death

Chapter 2: What is Death? 

Chapter 3: Dying 

Chapter 4: End-of-Life Issues and Decisions

Chapter 5: Suicide

Chapter 6: Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident

Chapter 7: Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die

 

 

COMPREHENSIVE TABLE OF CONTENTS:

 

Chapter 1: As We Think About Death

A History of Death?

Not Thinking About Death: A Failed Experiment

Your Self-Inventory of Attitudes, Beliefs, and Feelings

Some Answers – And The Questions They Raise

Man is Mortal: But What Does That Have To DO With Me? 

Anxiety, Denial, and Acceptance: Three Core Concepts 

Studies and Theories of Death Anxiety 

Major Findings From Self-Reports of Death Anxiety 

Theoretical Perspectives on Death Anxiety

Accepting and Denying Death

 

Chapter 2: What is Death?  

Ideas About The Nature And Meaning Of Death 

Death As Observed, Proclaimed, And Imagined 

Biomedical Approaches To The Definition Of Death 

Event Versus State 

What Does Death Mean? 

Interpretations Of The Death State 

Conditions That Resemble Death 

Death As A Person 

Conditions That Death Resembles 

The Undead 

Death As An Agent Of Personal, Political, And Social

 

Chapter 3: Dying 

The Moment Of Death: Is It Vanishing? 

What Is Dying, And When Does It Begin? 

Trajectories Of Dying: From Beginning To End 

Guarded Feelings, Subtle Communications 

Individuality And Universality In The Experience Of Dying 

Theoretical Models Of The Dying Process 

 

Chapter 4: End-of-Life Issues and Decisions

From Description To Decision Making 

Who Should Participate In End-Of-Life Decisions? 

The Living Will And Its Impact 

Right-To-Die Decisions That We Can Make 

A Right Not To Die? The Cryonics Alternative 

Organ Donation 

Funeral-Related Decisions 

   

Chapter 5: Suicide

What Do The Statistics Tell Us? 

Four Problem Areas 

Some Cultural Meanings Of Suicide 

A Powerful Sociological Theory Of Suicide 

Some Individual Meanings Of Suicide 

Facts And Myths About Suicide 

Suicide Prevention 

Emerging Issues And Challenges 

 

Chapter 6: Violent Death: Murder, Terrorism, Genocide, Disaster, and Accident

Murder 

Terrorism 

9/11/01 And Its Consequences 

Accident And Disaster 

   

Chapter 7: Euthanasia, Assisted Death, Abortion, and the Right to Die

“I Swear By Appollo The Physician”: What Happened To The Hippocratic Oath? 

Key Terms And Concepts 

Our Changing Attitudes Toward A Right To Die 

The Right-To-Die Dilemma: Case Examples 

Erscheint lt. Verlag 6.12.2011
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 230 x 188 mm
Gewicht 700 g
Themenwelt Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie Mikrosoziologie
ISBN-10 0-205-00108-4 / 0205001084
ISBN-13 978-0-205-00108-8 / 9780205001088
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